Pretty disappointing as I drove the majority of the way, then hiked to the summit. Also climbed one of the lookout tours. Grabbed a couple of the huge pine cones for Christmas decorations and headed home.

A nice warm day with some friends. Drove most of the way to the top and then walked the rest of the road. Summit rock is a nice little scramble. Also went up the little 6,400' crag east of the main peak with a big expanse of open rock - great views. Glad to finally climb the highest point of the county I've lived in for 4 years!

No problems with access - the Indians charged us $5 a head, gave us a basic map of the area too. Camping is $25 for the night, it is a nice-looking campground.

Drove my Civic to junction w/Sukat Rd and hiked up. Added Corral BM (Pt 6,407') as a bonus which didn't even show up on my topo map, but stood out like a sore thumb due to recent fires and the firebreaks on it. Wanted to climb Cody and Pike BM's but the road to the eastern parts of the reservation were closed.

Hiked this with my little bro and my dogs. We parked at 5,200ft in order to get some hiking in. Beautiful day with great views all around. Only saw two other cars on the road. What neat place. Took us two hour to reach the summit from our car.

Always interesting, these excursions onto reservations. Unaware of the 'open' times to non-residents, I stopped by the info office at the tribal center, where a woman in the trailer- the only person I was able to find- told me to come back tomorrow. Fine. As I was hanging out outside the trailer, figuring out what to do/where to go after this (a few minutes later), she comes out & tells me if I don't leave immediately, she'll call the tribal police. What?! I've encountered numerous crazy people in SF, but this was unexpected & uncalled for. Seriously? I'll give her the benefit of the doubt & tell myself it was that time of the month- whatever...

Next day came back & went through the proper formalities. As time was limited, I did some driving before starting to hoof it, although I'd wanted to hike from the bottom to the top. Oh well. Parked at the Hot Springs Mtn/Lookout (as shown on the Los Coyotes-provided map) Rd.-Campground Rd. intersection, & started up. :45 later was at the dilapidated lookout. 'No-one told me the final summit block was 5th class,' I remember thinking to myself. After enjoying a brew on the rocks adjacent the lookout, I discovered that the true lookout lies in the brush across the way- whoops. Made a quick jaunt over there- afterall, this "highpointing" business includes by definition attaining the actual highpoint (ugh!!). After the obligatory highpoint, got down & back to car. Drove out just a few minutes after my officially-alloted time was up (15.00)- they waved as I passed through the gate.

Beautiful area & summit- it was far prettier than I'd expected. Despite the fog-clouds (or perhaps because of?), the views were great, & it was cool to see a glider flying above. Certainly a far different 'San Diego' than most (myself included until this point) think of!

Despite my initial unpleasant encounter, the young guy I met at the entrance station the day of my summit was inviting & quite nice (thanks for the orange). It was a pleasure to meet him. Quibling aside, it's nice that the tribe indeed does allow access, for those demented 'highpointers,' as well as those wanting to see a beautiful area off the beaten path, alike. Glad to have been in this special place.

Was driving to Anza-Borrego and happened to notice the Los Coyotes Indian Reservation on the way. A southern CA hiking book had mentioned this was the highest in San Diego County, so on a whim decided to hike it on the drive back- my 10th county HP but first as part of my goal to do all of them in CA.

We stopped at the gate but no one was there, so drove down a very rutted road, took quite a while, then hiked to the summit. Didn't realize until a month later that it was closed to visitors as of a couple weeks before our visit. As far as I know no one else went up for a few years.

did this on a Monday (no one was manning the entrance station on the way up or on the way down) with beautiful weather. There is a nice looking animal den on the north side of the summit block of rocks that looked rather interesting.